Recent content by berniethebolt

I think player A was trying to be clever but…. On the first tee player A tees up his ball then lays a club down to give direction. He then stands by it, picks it up and goes to hit the ball. Hang on says player B, you can’t do that under Rule 4.3a. Yes I can said player A because under Rule...

Presumably if, before the 3 minutes have passed, player B says that he might have hit A,s ball by mistake then the time is paused to allow A (or B) to go to the green and check.

So if my ball is heading towards a PA but there is a "slight" chance that it might be in the rough nearby, I can claim that the ball is probably lost in the rough and play a provisional. If it is in the PA then I proceed ion that basis and abandon the provisional?

So if the ball "might" be in a penalty area then you are not allowed to play a provisional?

Thank you that is very informative.

Watching a video with Neil Tappin and Jezz Ellwood on when is a golf stroke a stroke Jezz noted in passing the somewhat bizarre situation that if the head comes off your club during the back swing it did not count as a stroke but if it happened on the down swing it did. Surely he should have...

Thanks.

I hit a longish pitch to the green which was obviously close to the pin. Playing partner, John, did the same. When I got to the green I was delighted to see my ball 6 inches from the hole so I walked up and tapped it in for a four. Hang on said Alan, another player, your ball finished short of...

You cannot have a black and white standard that involves measurement without specifying error bounds. However this conversation has ceased to have any real purpose.

Absolutely. That is why any consideration of whether the ball is "on the line" is meaningless for all practical purposes.

These are all obviously good methods of deciding whether the ball is in or out of bounds but on the edge? How much leeway do you allow for movement of your fishing line/dental floss etc? 1 millimetre? 1 micrometre? On the edge is an impossible decision as no measurement is exact, just as...

Indeed hence my suggestion that the first statement is, on its own, definitive - "outside the boundary edge" clearly does not include "on the boundary edge". But dare I suggest that consideration of a ball "touching the boundary edge" is splitting hairs. One can talk about a tangent "touching a...

Once you have pointed out the full wording of the rule then the situation became quite clear and obvious. But I must say that it is hard to see how the second part adds anything but potential confusion to the first - as happened in the incident I posted. Surely A ball at rest is out of bounds...

Yes indeed. Thank you.

(2) When Ball Is Out of Bounds. A ball at rest is out of bounds only when all of it is outside the boundary edge of the course. A ball is in bounds when any part of the ball: Lies on or touches the ground or anything else .... inside the boundary edge, or .... The ball was on the white line...